How pets feel and saying goodbye, sentence 10

A pet that suddenly snaps when it used to be friendly is often in pain, so you stop touching it and tell an adult.

Who acts: pet, animal, you · What happens: snap, use, be, stop, touch, tell · To what, where: pain, animal, adult · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «How pets feel and saying goodbye» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pet, animal, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pet	det
2	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 is	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 snaps	nsubj
4	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	5 snaps	advmod
5	snaps	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 pet	acl:relcl
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 used	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 used	nsubj
8	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 snaps	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	11 friendly	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 friendly	cop
11	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 used	xcomp
12	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	often	often	ADV	_	12 is	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 pain	case
15	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 is	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stop	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	19 stop	advmod
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 stop	nsubj
19	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 is	conj
20	touching	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 stop	xcomp
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 touching	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 tell	cc
23	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 touching	conj
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 adult	det
25	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tell	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 is	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	snap	present	a pet				suddenly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	use	past	animal					vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	to-infinitive	animal not said here				friendly property	tree rules
4	be	present	a pet			pain	often property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pain=Location
5	stop	present	you					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
6	touch	gerund	you not said here	animal				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
7	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		a adult			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:everyday:066-how-pets-feel-and-saying-goodbye.lesson:10.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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